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This search is performed using a indexing/search
engine designed and developed for bibliography files by Mohan U. Kamath using a
combination of Perl
and C
programs. The total system consists of less than 800 lines of code and
uses inverted
lists, multilevel indexing and other optimizations to perform
competitively with other
bibliography search sites equipped with text retrieval engines. By
incorporating additional query primitives and a document ranking
facility this search engine can be extended to a full text retrieval
engine. The search engine uses close to 10 MB of database
bibliography (20,000+ entries) available from Database
Bibliographies. This bibliography will be enhanced
gradually. Currently the bibliography is indexed only on important
fields like author, title, keyword,
abstract, year, annote and
institution. Approximate CPU times for processing queries that
match 1, 2 and 3 keywords are 0.7, 2.5 and 3.3 seconds
respectively. Actual response time will vary depending upon the
keyword frequencies, network/server traffic and other web
overheads. Currently index files and bibliography files are read from
the disk for each request. Plans are on to setup a server, in which
case index files need not be read everytime, making the retrieval even
faster. This is not a probabilistic system and hence precision and
recall in the text retrieval sense are both 100%. The keyword(s)
specified are highlighted in the entries returned. If the source
bibliography files contain repeated entries, this will be reflected in
your search results. If a search for multiple keywords fails, the
system provides some feedback about the number of matches found for
each keyword so that you can modify and resubmit your query. If you
have problems/suggestions and pointers to bibliography entries that
could be added to our database, please send mail to the author - thanks!
Mohan Kamath 1995 Last Update: September 12, 1995 To the Database
Systems page of Univ of Massachusetts